How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?

Jayne ,'The Message'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:34:05 pm PST #6633 of 10001
Visilurking

Pick. One.

I'm stopping of my own volition.

t /python


Trudy Booth - Mar 04, 2003 12:34:16 pm PST #6634 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I've made a couple of forays into No Man's Land, but I think my usual "lalala let's all be happy and sensible" attitude won't make a dent.

I'm C&Ping this anonymously because I agree with it (I think a LOT of people agree with it).

Dudes, we're Buffistas. This is not how we do things.


Steph L. - Mar 04, 2003 12:34:27 pm PST #6635 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

And disagreeing with me again isn't going to stop me either. IJS.

So, this is the Beat Everyone To Death With Your Plan Until They Agree? Very uncool.

I can see I'm in the super-minority on this issue, (except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me).

Really? I'd like to hear from them.


Steph L. - Mar 04, 2003 12:35:12 pm PST #6636 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Just re-posting this because it made me SO happy:

(except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me)

This long time lurker does not agree and thinks representation is the last thing this wonderful place needs.


Jesse - Mar 04, 2003 12:35:24 pm PST #6637 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hi Maggie! Hooray for de-lurking!

FTR, I too am against having representatives or whatever.


Typo Boy - Mar 04, 2003 12:36:00 pm PST #6638 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Er in fairness to Wolfram, the "400 lurkers who agree with me" thing was a joke on his part. I'm pretty sure it was a riff on a joke that started in another thread, but I can't remember which.


Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:36:13 pm PST #6639 of 10001
Visilurking

I can see I'm in the super-minority on this issue, (except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me).

This statement pisses me off. Not because I think you're necessarilly wrong, but because it is, by definition, unprovable. "The will of the people," indeed!

Alas poor Sarcasm, I knew him well.


DXMachina - Mar 04, 2003 12:37:50 pm PST #6640 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I can see I'm in the super-minority on this issue, (except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me).

This statement pisses me off. Not because I think you're necessarilly wrong, but because it is, by definition, unprovable. "The will of the people," indeed!

FWIW, I don't think the lurkers comment was meant to be taken seriously.

Doblerize folks!

edit: The ever difficult triple x-post


Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:38:17 pm PST #6641 of 10001
Visilurking

So, this is the Beat Everyone To Death With Your Plan Until They Agree? Very uncool.

Okay Steph, don't think I went quite that far. It seemed more like BEAT THE ONE PERSON WHO DARED DISAGREE WITH THE GROUP UNTIL HE CRIED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL plan. Which is cool in some contexts.


Gandalfe - Mar 04, 2003 12:38:21 pm PST #6642 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Whew.